Background: Chronic wounds are a serious medical condition affecting over 6 million people in the United States. Biofilms, which are communities of bacteria attached to a surface and protected by a polysaccharide coating, are intimately associated...

A growing body of evidence indicates that early life events play a significant role in shaping the behavior and physiology of the adult organism. Repeated maternal separation paradigms, which serve as models for childhood adversity, have yielded...

Background
An ongoing public policy concern in the United States is disparities in health care for racial/ethnic minority populations. The National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) addresses these disparities for chronic diseases such as...

Opioids acting at the mu (morphine) receptor represent the vast majority of clinically used opioids and remain the most effective analgesics for treating moderate to severe pain. The use of morphine and similar compounds for the management of pain...

Some past work indicates that sexual minorities may experience impaired social relationship outcomes relative to heterosexuals. However, a number of limitations of the extant literature imply the need for further work on potential social...

Extensive research in both humans and animals has identified and
isolated distinct brain regions essential for different types of memory,
supporting the notion of multiple memory systems (MMS). The hippocampus and the
striatum are the two systems...

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The ability of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) to impact the hippocampus and associated behaviors may vary depending upon estrogenic status. Previous work from our lab demonstrated that chronic antagonism of brain IGF-I receptors (IGF-IR)...

Peripheral estradiol treatment enhances hippocampus-dependent memory and morphology in ovariectomized rats. Although these enhancements are traditionally thought to be due to circulating estradiol, recent data suggest these changes are brought on...